Podcast #3: [Andrew] Malcolm & Melissa: Biden Is A Winner!

NOTE: This is the third and best installment of Malcolm & Melissa so far. Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times Top of the Ticket Blog and I will be doing a weekly podcast every Sunday for an hour. I hope you make it part of your routine. It’s a lot of fun!

Andrew and Melissa discuss Vice President Biden’s co-opting the Iraq war win–a war neither he nor the President believed should be waged. They also talked snow, global warming and editorial decisions. Why was the deathly luge clip played over and over? Finally, will Rahm Emanuel be a Speaker of the House? Predictions ensue….

Now, the Obama-Biden pair that opposed the Iraq war and its tactics and predicted their failure is prepared to accept credit for its success.

It seems that Biden, who’s from Delaware when he’s in Delaware and Pennsylvania when in Pennsylvania, is certain now that Iraq will turn out to be one of the Obama-Biden administration’s greatest achievements.

No, really.

Here’s how Biden put it to Lar:

I am very optimistic about — about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You’re going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You’re going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

I spent — I’ve been there 17 times now. I go about every two months — three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It’s impressed me. I’ve been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.

Biden did not elaborate on what all the administration’s other “great achievements” were so far.